[RECOVERY] Lenovo Thinkpad CWR Port

[jcase]

Photo by Logxen (aka not my trash!)

No warranties, no guarantees. If this ruins your device, your fault, not mine. Consider this a test build, backup important stuff manually to your PC for now (photos etc)

This requires an sdcard installed

[Image]
http://download.cunninglogic.com/cwr_ventana_2.img
39b5557cf3802d677e33cce76047ef60 *cwr_ventana_2.img

[Source]
https://github.com/CunningLogic/android_device_lenovo_ventana

[Instructions]

adb push cwr_ventana_2.img /data/local/
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
echo "#!/system/bin/sh" > /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
dd if=/data/local/cwr_recovery_2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

[Credits]
djrbliss - For rooting the thinkpad
utkanos - walking me through the device config setup
CM, Koush and everyone who has worked on CWR

 

[Sess]

FIRST

yea, FIRST!

J/K, space reserved for future use.

 

[yggdrasil]

Yo second!!!!!

Indeed. Thanks jcase and everyone else..

 

[quyTam]

thanks!

Will check every hours this thread for image link

 

[soveryevil]

Thats fantastic! will try this as soon as an image file gets posted! Hopefully it wont be long till it will be running ICS!

 

[soveryevil]

Can confirm root as I'm currently running it on my tablet. Bliss did it himself and is going to package it and release it in a couple of hours.

Thanks to everyone for their hard work with this.

 

[twospirits]

thanks!

Will check every hours this thread for image link

Same here.

TS

 

[yirsung]

Umm, I can't find a "HOW-TO-ROOT" thread.
Where is it??

 

[ker2gsr]

Umm, I can't find a "HOW-TO-ROOT" thread.
Where is it??

its not released yet waiting for confirmation for bounty collection

Sent from my ThinkPad Tablet using Tapatalk

 

[jhankinson]

Thanks for sharing this it worked great, except for the instructions I needed to use
dd if=/data/local/cwr_ventana_2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
rather than
dd if=/data/local/cwr_recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
to match the name of your file.
Thanks again for sharing, CWR seems to be running perfectly.
Also for those looking for root the exploit has been posted here.

 

[redbaron]

Hello, can't install CWM. Made everything as in first post (but changed filename). After reboot tried to enter recovery mode, there was text on screen entering recovery or something but device booted to system and nothing happend. Whats wrong. Here is output of instalation:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push cwr_ventana_2
.img /data/local/
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
1298 KB/s (4452352 bytes in 3.347s)

c:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
$ su
su
# mount -o rw,remount /system
mount -o rw,remount /system
# echo "#!/system/bin/sh" > /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
echo "#!/system/bin/sh" > /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
# dd if=/data/local/cwr_ventana_2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/data/local/cwr_ventana_2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
8696+0 records in
8696+0 records out
4452352 bytes transferred in 1.903 secs (2339648 bytes/sec)
#

 

[greywolfnz]

CWR test

did not seem to work . doesn't reboot in recovery but straight in normal boot

what info do you need to help debugging

 

[ker2gsr]

Hello, can't install CWM. Made everything as in first post (but changed filename). After reboot tried to enter recovery mode, there was text on screen entering recovery or something but device booted to system and nothing happend. Whats wrong. Here is output of instalation:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push cwr_ventana_2
.img /data/local/
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
1298 KB/s (4452352 bytes in 3.347s)

c:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
$ su
su
# mount -o rw,remount /system
mount -o rw,remount /system
# echo "#!/system/bin/sh" > /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
echo "#!/system/bin/sh" > /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
# dd if=/data/local/cwr_ventana_2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/data/local/cwr_ventana_2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
8696+0 records in
8696+0 records out
4452352 bytes transferred in 1.903 secs (2339648 bytes/sec)
#

have you tried usiing rom manager? ¿? I have not had the chance if not I would test currently backing up using titanium backup

Sent from my ThinkPad Tablet using Tapatalk

 

[Noneus]

I installed it. It works. Though /sdcard cannot be found and backup doesn't work. But I'm sure these will be figured out in the near future

 

[soveryevil]

I've got it installed just fine and even got the back up files

Gonna do a clean install and then see about dumping the images

 

[jhankinson]

ClockworkMod Recovery boots for me and was backing up but failed while it was backing up /data for me (I have tried twice now). It seems to backup /system just fine though, I don't know why it would fail during the /data backup. Has anyone else successfully made a backup yet?

 

[quyTam]

failed to restart in recovery for me (exactly as redBaron)
Try to install CWM 3 times

OK, booting in recovery works fine, but NOT via Rom Manager !
(only by pressing and releasing vol+ button when booting)

 

[stewarta]

Thanks for sharing this it worked great, except for the instructions I needed to use
dd if=/data/local/cwr_ventana_2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
rather than
dd if=/data/local/cwr_recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
to match the name of your file.
Thanks again for sharing, CWR seems to be running perfectly.
Also for those looking for root the exploit has been posted here.

Yes ... one has to take great care with naming files ... I did something similar and used Root Explorer to rename the cwr file correctly.

 

[greywolfnz]

recovery

still not workign for me.
tried to re-install it a few times

when i boot in recovery with Vol++ i see the booting into recovery message and then after a second or so vibrate again and start normal boot

 

[cp_kirkley]

I am very excited to see this news - though i'm going to wait until there is a semi-stable, well establish path for Root. Hopefully this achievement leads to the Thinkpad Tablet getting much more attention, its a pretty badass tablet and should prove to be a pretty good performer once all the Lenovo crapware is tossed out. Glad I remained faithful and patient!